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Study finds gender gap persists in cardiac care

Medicine & Health / Health

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Gender differences persist in the quality of cardiac care across Ontario, according to a health study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Ontario women who had ...


Children who survive cancer more likely to suffer from heart disease

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children and adolescents who survive cancer have a significantly higher risk of developing heart disease as young adults, according to the largest study on this issue published on bmj.com today.


Most primary-care physician practices appear too small to adequately measure quality

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most primary care physicians active in the Medicare program work in practices with too few patients to reliably measure significant differences in common measures of quality and cost performance, according to a study in the ...


Bone marrow cells may significantly reduce risk of second heart attack

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cells from heart attack survivors' own bone marrow reduced the risk of death or another heart attack when they were infused into the affected artery after successful stent placement, according to research reported in the ...


Popular diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of heart failure and death

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Sulphonylureas, a type of drug widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, carries a greater risk of heart failure and death compared with metformin, another popular antidiabetes drug.


Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Wide Disparities Found in Age of Hospitalization for Patients of Different Races

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from Yale School of Public Health shows that blacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers for a host of preventable medical conditions, ...


Heart failure linked to gene variant affecting vitamin D activation

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Previous studies have shown a link between low vitamin D status and heart disease. Now a new study shows that patients with high blood pressure who possess a gene variant that affects an enzyme critical to normal vitamin ...


CPR is successful without mouth-to-mouth, but not without oxygen

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People can survive cardiac arrest if they receive only chest compressions during attempts to revive them - as advised by the current American Heart Association guidelines. But they cannot survive without access to oxygen ...


Europe's device therapy use for heart failure doubles 2004-2008, some countries have low uptake

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of implantable devices for the treatment of heart failure increased "enormously" in Europe between the years 2004 and 2008, but there still remain large differences between countries, according to a study reported ...


Managing doctors' practices made easier with new software

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A McMaster University-led research team has developed an innovative software tool that gives family doctors up-to-date information on their patients in two seconds or less.



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